| Submitted by Tsiatsan on Monday, November 09 2009 |
Kurdish Info- Turkish officials have conducted many massacres and been responsible for many deaths since the beginning of the war in Kurdistan. Some villages were bombarded by tanks, others depleted by soldiers. The corpses of people killed by soldiers in broad daylight were found thrown to one side. Official spokesmen for the State found tragicomic excuses to hide those responsible. Most of the deaths were attributed to the PKK.Deaths in the cities were blamed on ‘stones thrown by demonstrators’ and ‘death by falling.’ However the PKK did not have any tanks and the stones thrown by demonstrators were not fatal. One did not need to be a detective to see that state officials were responsible for the deaths.
Witnesses and evidence always pointed at the military.
These days this State custom is being represented by Çewlik governor Irfan Balkanlýoðlu and Þirnex governor Ali Yerlikaya. Some of the tragicomic excuses these two have presented for recent deaths are as follows.
A police tank crushed Yahya Menekþe on 15th February 2008 in Þirnex’s Cizre province. Witness eye reports and medical reports were not sufficient for Governor Ali Yerlikaya and he declared that Yahya Menekþe’s death was caused by the ‘commotion during demonstrations.’ The same governor declared that the death of 18 month old baby Mehmet Uytun was caused not by a gas bomb thrown by police but by stones thrown into the house by demonstrators. Governor Yerlikaya exaggerated things when he said that DTP member Resul Ilçin died of a fall in a police station after an autopsy had confirmed that he had been tortured.
When little Ceylan Önkol was killed by a mortar and the prosecutor hadn’t even been to the scene of the crime, Çewlik governor Balkanlýoðlu had already determined the cause of death. Balkanlýoðlu’s statement ‘the PKK’s mine is responsible for Ceylan’s death’ was declared untrue by the State itself. The corpses of 10 HPG guerrillas killed in the Dallýtepe pastoral in 2008 were in an unidentifiable state. Balkanlýoðlu tried to cover up this inhumane and barbarous practise by claiming that the guerrillas were not circumcised. Last but not least this governor tried to cover up the murder of four villagers in Genç’s Warê Mêrg village Dewa Xiraf fields on 19th July 2008, claiming that ‘it was due to hostility between families.’
However pieces of bullets and mortar belonging to the Turkish army were found at the scene of the incident.
